Women

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Women – Helen, Hekabe, Andromache,

Briseis, Chryseis

Epithets – Andromache of the white arms, Chryseis of the fair

cheeks, Helen of the white arms, lovely haired Helen, long dressed Helen

Book 1

CH - Valued – stolen by

Agamemnon which causes her father to call upon Apollo to send a plague

CH - Passive – has no

direct speech and is hardly mentioned

BR - Passive/objectified

– given as a reward to Achilles then is stolen by Agamemnon

HEL - Beautiful – the men

fought over her which caused the war in the first place bease Paris stole her

from Menelaos

Book 3

HEL - Objectified – Paris and Menelaos duel over her and the

winner receives her as their prize

Book 4 -

Book 6

HEK - Obedient - Hekabe

and the other women pick out their finest robe, and go up to Athene's temple as

instructed by Hektor

HEL - Self-deprecating - Helen

approaches Hektor and tells him how she wishes she had either had a better

husband or had died in infancy, instead of causing so much trouble

ANDRO - Cautious – asks

hektor not to go back to war in case he dies

ANDRO - Desperate – begs

hektor to stay with her because if he dies she will become enslaved and their

son will become an orphan, she is therefore dependent on Hektor

ANDRO - Strong – she has tolerated numerous deaths of her loved

ones but she still manages to raise Astyanax and cope while Hektor is at war

ANDRO - Troubled – scarred

by the past events of the death of her brothers and parents

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Book 19

BR - Objectified – returned to Achilles again

BR - Upset – cries at the loss of Patroklos as he treated her

kindly

Book 22

ANDRO - Naïve/optimistic

– preparing a bath for Hektor’s return

ANDRO - Distraught –

collapses at the sight of Hektor’s dead body

ANDRO - Devastated – tears

out her hair in grief

Book 23 -

Book 24

ANDRO AND HEK - Sorrowful – the first to throw themselves upon

Hektor's body are his wife Andromache and

his mother Hekabe

ANDRO - Scared - predicts

that she and her son will one day become slaves to the Achaians

HEL - Self-pitying – laments

at having been brought to Troy by Paris

HEL - Grateful – praised

Hektor for being so kind to her while others were cruel

HEK - Pessimistic – she

rejects Priams plan to go to Achilles and ask for Hektor’s body back as she

thinks it's pointless

HEK - Angry – says she wishes she could cut off Achilles's flesh and

eat it raw

HEK - Cautious – she makes

Priam and the herald pour out libations and pray before they go off to

Achilles’s hut

HEK - Relieved – her son’s

body is back safely behind the walls of Troy

ANDRO - Regretful – upset

that Hektor died away from home so she did not get any final words from him